A Fire in the Sky by Sophie Jordan Published by Avon on September 24, 2024
Genres: Fantasy Romance
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New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan returns to the high-stakes, sweeping world of dragons, romance, and drama first evoked in her bestselling young adult Firelight series, in a brand-new epic adult romantasy series.
Dragons are extinct. Witches are outcast. Magic is dying.
But human lust for power is immortal.
Dragon fire no longer blisters the skies over Penterra, but inside the lavish palace, life is still perilous…especially for Tamsyn. Raised in the glittering court alongside the princesses, it's her duty to be punished for their misdeeds. Treated as part of the royal family but also as the lowliest servant, Tamsyn fits nowhere. Her only friend is Stig, Captain of the Guard...though sometimes she thinks he wants more than friendship.
When Fell, the Beast of the Borderlands, descends on her home, Tamsyn’s world becomes even more dangerous. To save the pampered princesses from a fate worse than death, she is commanded to don a veil and marry the brutal warrior. She agrees to the deception even though it means leaving Stig, and the only life she’s ever known, behind.
The wedding night begins with unexpected passion—and ends in near violence when her trickery is exposed. Rather than start a war, Fell accepts Tamsyn as his bride...but can he accept the dark secrets she harbors—secrets buried so deep even she doesn’t know they exist? For Tamsyn is more than a royal whipping girl, more than the false wife of a man who now sees her as his enemy. And when those secrets emerge, they will ignite a flame bright enough to burn the entire kingdom to the bone.
Magic is not dead...it is only sleeping. And it will take one ordinary girl with an extraordinary destiny to awaken it.
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Tamsyn was raised alongside the princesses in Penterra, but she never quite fit in. We find out that she is the whipping girl, if a princess does something out of line, Tamsyn is the one that pays the price. When a warrior comes to town and demands a princess as his bride the King decides to pull a fast one on him. How would he know that Tamsyn is not a princess? This deception had me worried for Tamsyn because the Beast of the Borderlands and his people are not ones to be trifled with. This starts our story as we see the warriors and Tamsyn head to the Borderlands if they can make it there alive.
Holy guacamole, this book was so good! I read this book in less than 24 hours, I was just addicted. This brought back memories of back in the day when I would read the big alpha warrior coming to claim a princess historical romances, but then you add in dragons and witches and you have my full attention. I want the next book ASAP, this one left off with some surprising information to say the least. If you are a fan of romantasy you need to try this book!
